Click on the link here for Audio Player: PorcupineTree -TheSkyMovesSidewaysPhase1 I’ve kept meaning to post some Porcupine Tree on the Roundtable ever since we got started. But distractions got in the way and I didn’t get around to it until tonight. If you’re not familiar with Porcupine Tree, and have
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Soft Machine – We Did It Again – 1968 My first exposure to The Soft Machine came in 1968 when they opened for Jimi Hendrix – it was a turning point in my musical journey (yep, it was a journey – there
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Supersister In Session at VPRO 1971-72 Since I had put up Genesis in Concert from 1972 earlier today, I thought it would only be fitting to include a band who were contemporaries and colleagues from the same period. Supersister were a band
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 4 Guys from the Future – Sesssion – March 5, 2012 4 Guys From The Future are a band from Denmark that, if you haven’t already heard about them, here is ample evidence that you should know about them. Recorded during a
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Echo Lake – Wild Peace – 2012 Something of more recent vintage tonight. Echo Lake are a duo consisting of Thom Hill and Linda Jarvis. Their debut release came out in June of this year, and tonight’s track World Peace is also
Click on the link for Audio player: Jethro Tull – BBC Session – June 22, 1969 One of the early legends of the Progressive Rock movement. Jethro Tull initially got lumped into a mish-mash of genres. Labeled Folk-Rock, Art-Rock and Jazz-Rock, they were in fact a hybrid of everything, but
Click on the link here: The Ganjas – Raise – 2012 I haven’t posted anything on The Ganjas in a while. To get you up to speed; if you missed the last post I did on them, The Ganjas are a neo-psych/shoe-gaze/indie/experimental band from Santiago Chile. I first discovered them
Click on the Link: Giles, Giles and Fripp – 1968 On last night’s Roundtable I played a track from a 1969 session King Crimson did for the BBC. Almost exactly a year before that session, an album was released by a band known as Giles, Giles and Fripp. According to
Click on the Link: Phil Manzanera – Miss Shapiro – 1975 If it weren’t for bands like Roxy Music and the innovations from members such as Brian Eno and Phil Manzanera, the 70’s would not have been nearly as interesting as they came to be. Roxy Music was able to
Supersister were a Dutch band who were hugely influential during the formative years of the Progressive Rock Movement. Although not a commercial success in the U.S. (only one album was released here), Supersister were very big in Europe and quite successful in the UK and just about everywhere else.
